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De Waterkant

De Waterkant (Afrikaans for “the waterside”) is a tiny neighborhood on the outer edge of the inner part of Cape Town, near the Bo-Kaap and just beside Signal Hill from which the noon-day gun is fired. These photos were taken by a contributor to one of the skyscrapercity.com forums.

Published at 9:08 pm on Wednesday 23 September 2009. Categories: Architecture Cape Town South Africa Tags: , , .
Comments

Interesting. The feel is nice, but the colors aren’t exactly to my taste.

— kd 24 Sep 2009 10:48 am

I like it. It does, however, remind me of Allentown, Buffalo, NY’s gay neighborhood, whose Victorian houses has similar color schemes.

— The Western Confucian 24 Sep 2009 10:37 pm

I think De Waterkant stole its colour scheme from the Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay neighbourhood next door.

— Andrew Cusack 24 Sep 2009 10:54 pm

It looks to me as though the pictures were taken on a rainy/overcast day.

If it had been a sunnier day, the colours would not look so out of place:
think Greek islands, whitewash and sizzling blue sky…

— Tim C 25 Sep 2009 3:58 pm
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